A TEENAGER who shot a nightclub doorman at point-blank range is to serve 10 years behind bars.

Raphael Hunte, 18, from Bradley, was found guilty of attempted murder by a jury at Bradford Crown Court.

He had shot Bradford club doorman Nawaz Ahmed who had a lucky escape when a bullet aimed at his chest lodged in a hand he had put up to protect himself.

Hunte, of Couford Grove, had denied he was the gunman caught on CCTV firing the shot outside Gilly's nightclub in the city centre.

But he was unanimously found guilty of attempted murder and possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.

He has been given a 10-year sentence which he will start in a young offenders' institution and then transfer to prison when he is 21.

The trial had been told that Hunte had felt humiliated when door staff had refused to let him into the club because he was wearing a hooded top. He then, in a moment of rage, produced the gun and tried to kill Mr Ahmed.

The jury heard that Mr Ahmed was a doorman at the club on Salem Street when a scuffle broke out between a customer and two of his colleagues.

He told the court Hunte had then produced the weapon, pointing it at the head of another doorman before aiming at his (Mr Ahmed's) chest and firing from only three or four feet away.

A surgeon removed the bullet and the hand was bandaged up for six weeks after the incident.